Linguistic Features Of Poetic Works Depicting Disease And Healing

Abstract

This study examines the linguistic characteristics of poetic works depicting disease and healing from the perspectives of lexical semantics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and medical humanities. It explores how poets combine scientific medical terminology with emotionally expressive language to represent the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of illness. The analysis highlights the role of conceptual and embodied metaphors, symbolic imagery, and stylistic devices such as rhythm, repetition, and phonetic patterns in constructing poetic representations of suffering and recovery. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the therapeutic and humanizing functions of poetic discourse, demonstrating how narrative and figurative language reshape experiences of illness, foster empathy, and restore patients' identities beyond clinical descriptions. The findings reveal that the language of disease and healing poetry serves as an interdisciplinary bridge between medicine and literature, integrating scientific precision with aesthetic expression and emotional depth.